Nashua, NH – Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez, a 33-year-old Venezuelan migrant, thought he was heading to his arraignment on misdemeanor charges at Nashua Circuit Court on February 20, 2025. Instead, ICE agents tackled him in a dramatic courthouse arrest, captured on security footage shared by @unlimited_ls on X, showing the chaos that ensued—including an elderly bystander with a cane being knocked to the ground. For conservatives, the video, viewed over 600,000 times, is a testament to Trump’s ICE taking swift action against illegal immigrants, even if it means bypassing what they call “liberal judges.”
Marquez Colmenarez faced charges from a February 9 incident for drunken driving, driving without a license, and failing to provide information after an accident, per an AP News report on April 14 []. ICE agents, acting on orders to detain illegal immigrants, attempted to apprehend him quietly in the courthouse elevator, but he fled, leading to a scuffle near the third-floor lobby. The footage shows agents throwing Marquez Colmenarez to the floor, with Hudson Police Department officer Jared Neff assisting after hearing a “loud commotion” and voices yelling “Stop!” Neff reported Marquez Colmenarez resisted, and the elderly bystander was inadvertently knocked down in the struggle, though his condition remains unclear—prompting @MAGAForce2024 to quip on X, “Give him an extra 20 for assaulting that elderly man.”
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Marquez Colmenarez, now held at an ICE facility in Texas as of April 14, per an ICE detainee locator [], missed his arraignment, leading to a bench warrant. The arrest reflects Trump’s second-term policy shift, which repealed Biden-era restrictions on ICE operations in “sensitive” locations like courthouses, per a DHS memo on January 20, 2025 []. Conservatives on X, like @PatriotPulse, cheered the move: “ICE didn’t wait for the liberal judge—real justice in action!” @America1stMAGA added, “This is what Trump promised—deport illegals, no excuses!”
The incident has reignited debates over courthouse arrests, with a Boston ICE agent held in contempt last month for a similar action, per The Guardian on March 15 []. For Trump supporters, though, the video is proof of ICE’s new aggressive stance—88,763 removals since January 2025, per DHS data on April 10 []—and a win for public safety, even if it came at the cost of a bystander’s fall. As @JusticeForAll22 wrote, “Sorry for the old guy, but illegals like this need to go—ICE did their job!”
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